Richard Eiler assists healthcare clients in operational, compliance and transactional matters. He works with a range of the firm’s healthcare clients, including urgent care centers, behavioral health centers, medical staffing companies and others. Richard also assists clients with regulatory issues involving alternative payment models, including federal bundled payment and service delivery models. In addition, Richard counsels clients with respect to healthcare fraud and abuse issues and compliance issues related to the federal Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as similar state laws with respect to the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting.
Richard earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. He received a B.S. in communication with minors in history and business from the University of Tennessee.
American Health Law Association (AHLA)
Nashville Health Care Council — Leadership Health Care
Representation of Pharos Capital’s post-acute care provider platform, Charter Health Care Group, in its acquisition of sister companies Physmed Home Health Care and Serene Care Hospice. Physmed Home Health specializes in geriatric care, delivering traditional home health nursing and therapy services, as well as social work and dietician services. Serene Care Hospice provides in-home end-of-life care with services including nursing care, spiritual care and bereavement support. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Representation EyeSouth Partners in its acquisition of MidWest Eye Center, a comprehensive ophthalmology physician practice group with 28 providers in Ohio and Kentucky
Representation of Family Care Center, a provider of outpatient psychiatry services to the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans, and the surrounding communities, in its sale to Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm
Representation of W20 Group, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its acquisition of starpower, LLC, an entertainment and influencer marketing agency
Representation of Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance in a business combination with Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics and Mid-Tennessee Bone & Joint Clinic. Combined, the group will have 105 physicians and a staff of more than 800, with 27 locations in 17 counties serving patients from the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevierville to the Tennessee River in Waverly
Representation of EyeSouth Partners in its acquisition of Coastal Eye Associates, a comprehensive ophthalmology physician practice group based in Texas
Representation of EyeSouth Partners in its acquisition of Mitchell Refractive, a comprehensive ophthalmology and refractive surgery physician practice based in Boca Raton, Florida
Representation of Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Partners, a premier provider of radiology services to Middle Tennessee, in its partnership with Radiology Partners, the largest physician-led and physician-owned radiology practice in the United States
Represented Consonance Capital Partners in the recapitalization of Orsini Pharmaceutical Services, LLC
Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch — Health Care Law (2021)